Calcutta, Oct. 21 :     A 44-year-old man was killed after puja organisers battered him in his Paikpara home following his refusal to let the local community puja draw electrical connections from his house. Dipak Gargari, a state health department employee, was punched, kicked and finally pushed down the stairs of his home on Khelat Babu Lane on Monday night. He died in hospital. Police said the puja organisers of Khelat Babu Lane Sarbojanin Puja Committee had, against Gargari?s repeated requests, drawn connections for their puja illumination from his meter box.They had also set up a temporary office in a ground floor room of his house. The electrical installations in this room, too, were fed from Gargari?s meter box. Gargari had objected, but the organisers browbeat him into parting with electricity for the puja. On Friday, Gargari found that the connection had already been drawn from his meter box. The war of words about parting with power turned ugly on Monday night (first navami). ?Apart from drawing power, Dipak was being harassed daily by the youth. On the ground floor, they used to drink, sing and create a din late into the night,? said Gargari?s relative, Ashok Mukhopadhyay. Gargari protested again around 11 pm on Monday. ?He told the youth that he would disconnect their electrical lines,? a relative said. The group of six youth stormed up the stairs and surrounded Gargari. One of them, Chuni, grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and punched him. Gargari hit back but he was outnumbered. Chuni eventually pushed Gargari down the stairs. ?He rolled down and lay still,? said a family friend. Friends and neighbours helped carry Gargari up the stairs to his bedroom. A doctor was called. He suggested that Gargari be shifted to hospital. At about 2 am, he died of his injuries at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital. The post mortem examination revealed he had died of internal haemorrhage. Gargari?s relatives informed the police on Tuesday. They lodged an FIR at the Chitpur police station in which they complained about the fracas over power as the cause of the brawl. Chuni was arrested on Tuesday. The other members of the group that had assaulted Gargari have fled from the neighbourhood. Anjan Basu, the secretary of the local puja committee, denied that the organisers had drawn power from Gargari?s meter box. Gargari?s wife was numb with shock. ?I have lost everything,? she cried, rocking her three-year-old daughter Devparna on her lap. Gargari?s five-year-old son Dibyaraj, who was present when his father was being kicked and punched by the youth, seemed bewildered. ?My father is not at home. He won?t be coming back,? he said. Moments later, he said: ?Chuni has beaten my father.?